"Atlantic Drift," with UK poets James Byrne, from Lancashire, England, and Zoe Skoulding, from Bangor, Wales, and US poets Forrest Gander, Be With, and Bhanu Kapil, in a reading and discussion about interrelationships between innovative poets in both nations, hosted by Lyn Hejinian, with support from Robert Hass, reception follows in the English Department Lounge, Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall, University of California, Berkeley, free and open to the public, 5:00-7:00 (hollowayreadingseries.wordpress.com)

Red Pine (the pen name of Bill Porter) reads from and discusses his many acclaimed translations of Chinese poetry and sutras, primarily Taoist and Buddhist, many of his books are published by Copper Canyon Press and Counterpoint; he will be interviewed onstage by poet Robert Hass, Graduate Student Lounge, Third Floor, Room 300, Wheeler Hall, University of California campus, Berkeley, open to the public, free, 4:00

The Holloway Series and the English Department present a poetry reading by Roberto Harrison, Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall, University of California, Berkeley, free and open to the public, 6:30 (hollowayreadingseries.wordpress.com)

The Holloway Series and the English Department present a poetry reading by Sara Nicholson, the 2018-19 UC Berkeley Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry, Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall, University of California, Berkeley, free and open to the public, 6:30 (hollowayreadingseries.wordpress.com)